Sticking To The Weights :: essays research papers

12345. I had to get stronger before the next basketball season at La Puente High School. I was pushing myself unuttered when it came to lifting weights and running. I thought I could catch up with all the sentence I missed during the last six weeks of last year. I was expose of the end of the season last year from a torn brawniness in my hip. I k unsanded I was weak and out of shape compared to the another(prenominal) players that were going to be on the team next season. I pushed myself rattling hard for the offset couple of weeks. Because I worked myself so hard I began to slowly push it away from my to do list.     I started to set my sets and repetitions refuse and lower till I just wasnt doing it anymore. I had that intact summer that I was really looking forward to. I cute to come back the next season and be in develop shape then Ive ever been. I also wanted to show my coach that I never quit not eve in my off-season. That wasnt the way it wen t though. I wasted time and a lot of it. I wasted time with weight lifting and also a jumping program that I got that guaranteed a 10-12 inch gain in my vertical jump. The last few weeks of the summer my friend invited me to lift with him. He had put together a weight program that we did the rest of the summer.      incisively those last few weeks of the summer my friend and I were really comprehend how we were getting stronger. That really inspired us to keep working hard. The first day of school, our coach saw the changes in the both of us. He new we had been working hard and he admired that. I started to think of how I would feel if I had been working as hard as I was then, the whole summer. I started to get mad at myself for not doing what I should have been instead of sitting around all summer vie video games. After that moment I promised myself that I wouldnt relegate lifting weights. That I would always work hard. So far Im doing really well, I havent s topped since I started in the summer and Im really glad that I didnt. That was same(p) six weeks ago and Im still working hard.